Billie Joe Armstrong Has Written Six New Green Day Songs

Apr 6, 2020 @ 9:20am

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 23: (L-R) Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool of Green Day perform onstage during the 2017 Global Citizen Festival: For Freedom. For Justice. For All. in Central Park on September 23, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

Being under coronavirus lockdown has been time especially well spent for Billie Joe Armstrong.

The Green Day frontman exclusively told Kerrang! that he recently penned six new tracks for the band and that they’ll eventually get in the studio to record them once the pandemic is over.

As for what he’s doing when not writing, Armstrong admitted, “I’ve been going through The Office a lot, going through all of my punk and rock’n’roll documentaries, trying to read a little bit here and there, and hanging out with my dogs.”

Last Friday, Green Day dropped a new EP titled Otis Big Guitar Mix, featuring remixes of three songs from their ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! albums released in 2012.

Which bands are also readying new material during the pandemic lockdown?